Microsoft Office Blog by Chris Menard

ZOOM : Basic vs. Pro Account - 7 Features you are missing

Zoom offers two types of accounts: Free accounts, which Zoom calls Basic accounts, and Paid accounts. I'll show in this article the 7 main features that the Basic account is missing when compared to the Paid account.

Free up space in your Google Account

Your free Google Account gives you 15GB of space. What do you do when you get close to 15GB? You can either buy more space, which is reasonably priced or simply remove files and free up space.

Roles in a Teams Meeting: Organizer - Presenter - Attendee

Teams Meetings have three roles: Organizer, Presenter, and Attendee. You have different capabilities depending on your role. We will cover all the possibilities on the roles and how to change roles.

ZOOM - Join Before Host with Time Limits

Zoom 5.4.0, released on October 26, 2020, now allows hosts to schedule meetings with Join Before Host with time limits. Now you can prevent participants from joining your meeting 2 hours before it starts! The host can allow participants to join 5, 10, or 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. The ability to join at any time is still available. The time limit feature is a great new feature.

Snagit 2021 - Simplify and Magnify - Two New Features

Snagit 2021 came out on October 20, 2020. Two news features are Simplify and Magnify. Simplify works by removing unnecessary details, simplified images focus your audience’s attention on the important parts, and help keep your content current. You can manually or automatically simplify or magnify an image.

Excel DateDif function - difference between two dates

In Excel if you need to calculate the difference between two dates in years, month, or days, the DATEDIF function will handle it. DATEDIF is "Date & Dif".

Zoom Security Enhancements for May 2020

Zoom has an update that has major security changes: Unmute all participants is not available anymore, now consent is required if the host mutes and then unmutes a participant and meeting information can now be accessed when screen-sharing.

Zoom - Show host toolbar controls during screen share

In a Zoom meeting, when you share your screen, your Zoom window and meeting control toolbar is not included in the screen share. If you are training users to use Zoom, especially hosting a meeting, you may wish to include them. This is a great feature if you are showing someone else how to use the features of Zoom.

Google Meet : How to blur background and view 49 participants

Google Meet has two new features that were just released. One of them is that you can blur your background and the second is that you can now view a maximum of 49 people in your Google meeting. In this article we're gonna take a look at these two features.

7 reasons to enable the New Meeting Experience in Teams

Microsoft Teams has now the new Meeting Experience. At a first look it might not be as easy as it sounds, so I will walk you through all the steps you need to do and also give you 7 reasons for using the new experience.

PowerPoint / Keynote as a Virtual Background

Zoom's Virtual Background feature is trendy. It is easy to share a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation in a Zoom meeting, but now you can share that presentation as a Virtual Background. Participants can view your video imposed directly on the screen share.

Live Captions in Microsoft Teams with speaker attributions

Recently Microsoft Teams updated their live caption enhancement to a newer version. We tested the enhanced live caption feature, discussed Teams on the web, punctuation and how live captions work in recorded videos.